December 17 2020 meetup: Koa release

Date, time, and location

WHEN: Thursday, December 17, 1pm EST US / 18:00 UTC. (time converter)

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/s_L9wwRO1Ag (chat is below)

SLIDES:

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Agenda

• edX rebranding

• Marco Morales (edX): the Koa release: What’s New

  • Koa is the latest release of the Open edX platform. We’ll walk through the highlights of what is new in Koa.

In-event chat

13:12:44: From Peter (he/him) Pinch : Maybe it’s just me reminiscing about my youth, but I think the new logo has a ‘zine/cut-and-paste feel to it.
13:12:45: From Peter (he/him) Pinch : A little punk looks good on edX
13:13:01: From Marco Morales : :clap-hands: ^
13:23:05: From Zachary Trabookis : The new zoom meeting link threw me off!
13:29:30: From Régis B. : video!
13:29:31: From Glib Glugovskiy : Video xblock
13:29:36: From Peter (he/him) Pinch : Multiple choice
13:29:39: From Ayaz Quraishi : HTML
13:29:43: From Glib Glugovskiy : Multichoice
13:29:45: From Stefania Trabucchi : Checkbox
13:29:52: From Nicole Kessler : Multiple choice
13:29:58: From Hilal Güngör : multiple choice
13:30:06: From MOOCit SAS : discussion
13:31:21: From Zachary Trabookis : @Marco What’s the difference between an Open Response Assessment and Peer and Self shown here?
13:33:25: From Zachary Trabookis : @Marco Can the Open Response Assessments be auto-graded using Machine Learning? If not now has edX or the community thought about doing something like that?
13:34:10: From Nad : Does android / iOS applications support ORA ?
13:35:40: From Zachary Trabookis : Okay thanks @Marco. Yes we’re interested.
13:36:47: From alvaro.nunez@clustertech.com.do : Hello, I'm Álvaro Núñez from Dominican Republic. I want to know where can i certificate to be a master using OPEN EDX?
13:36:54: From Zachary Trabookis : Amazon is listening ...
13:37:52: From Ned Batchelder : Alvaro: I don’t know of a certificate like that, but you can ask at https://discuss.openedx.org, maybe someone knows.
13:38:18: From Zachary Trabookis : I can.
13:40:37: From alvaro.nunez@clustertech.com.do : thanks Ned. I mean professional support, I installed Koa release and some features not working. Like, SMTP, ORA...
13:41:21: From Zachary Trabookis : Koa is live now for latest supported production release?
13:41:35: From Marco Morales : ^ yup as of Dec 9th I believe
13:41:47: From Zachary Trabookis : Is Ubuntu 20.04 supported for Koa?
13:41:48: From Pierre Mailhot : I haven’t seen the new open-assessment button while testing Koa. Is that a new setting in Studio or on the platform?
13:41:56: From Ahmed Abdullah (Edly) : Can we expect some features related to gamification in future releases?
13:44:01: From Tho Nguyen : Is the Discussion/Forum still under development? Its UI seems a bit off compared to the other pages.
13:44:02: From Ahmed Abdullah (Edly) : One more question, many individuals inquire regarding notification module for Open edX. Currently, notifications feature is very limited.
13:44:13: From Ahmed Abdullah (Edly) : Can we expect some diversity in future?
13:44:27: From Zachary Trabookis : @Marco Can you explain again the courseware micro-frontend that’s available for Koa? Is some of that recommended to work with Juniper too?
13:44:28: From Peter (he/him) Pinch : Will how to set up and configure the self-paced schedule feature be part of the release notes?
13:44:36: From Manish : What about new Video pipeline
13:44:51: From David Adams : What's happening to Insights?
13:44:56: From MOOCit SAS : And courseware MFE?
13:45:59: From Nad : What about analytics and learner tracking ?
13:46:45: From Zachary Trabookis : Why did the edX logo change?
13:48:24: From Juned Khatri : Any updates on running production openedx in docker?
13:49:06: From Manish : is new MFE support accessibility as well?
13:51:47: From Marco Morales : Edx/frontend-app-learning
13:52:12: From Zachary Trabookis : Does the documentation show how to properly setup a microfrontend on AWS Cloudfront for example?
13:54:11: From Juned Khatri : How to join Build Test working group? I am interested.
13:54:39: From Ned Batchelder : BTR group: https://discuss.openedx.org/c/30
13:55:35: From Marco Morales : GitHub - openedx/paragon: 💎 An accessible, theme-ready design system built for learning applications and Open edX.
13:55:39: From Zachary Trabookis : Thank you.
13:55:45: From Marco Morales : Tagline: “Accessible components done right” :)
13:55:53: From Nad : I saw some dicussions about switching community installation to tutor. Any updates on that ?
13:56:45: From Nad : Thank you !
13:56:46: From Javier Viñuales : Thanks a lot!
13:56:55: From David : Thank you !
13:57:04: From MOOCit SAS : thanks!!!🔥
13:57:06: From Nicole Kessler : Great presentation! Thanks a lot!
13:57:11: From Jorge Londoño : Thanks everyone!
13:57:20: From ehuthmacher : Thank you Ned & Marco! Great presentations!
13:57:22: From Glib Glugovskiy : 🥳
13:57:26: From dyudyunov : Thank you
13:57:28: From Jose Romero : Great! Thanks!!
13:57:29: From Javier Viñuales : Happy Xmas to evertybody
13:57:31: From Dan Casey : Thanks all, for the good humored and informative presentation
13:57:34: From Everton Zanella Alvarenga : Thank you, bye!
13:57:35: From Meredith K Davies : Thanks!
13:57:39: From Javier Viñuales : Included Alexa